Gain of virulence caused by loss of a gene in murine cytomegalovirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 7536-7544

  Bubić, Ivan ^a   Wagner, Markus ^b,d   Krmpotić, Astrid ^a   Saulig, Tanja ^a   Kim, Sungjin ^c   Yokoyama, Wayne M ^c   Jonjić, Stipan ^a   Koszinowski, Ulrich H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; LIGAND; PROTEIN M157; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CMV1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DELETION MUTANT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOSS; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LIGAND BINDING; LY49H GENE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, LY; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LECTINS, C-TYPE; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUROMEGALOVIRUS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 3142742513     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.14.7536-7544.2004     Document Type: Article

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